Unknown writer
“A mind that is full cannot take in anything new…like this cup, you are full of opinions and preconceptions. Wisdom and happiness are to be found only by emptying one’s cup.”
Month: April 2009
Degon, Japanese monk
“To learn Buddha Dharma is to learn oneself. To learn oneself is to forget oneself. To forget oneself is to be experienced in the myriad of things.”
故事的另一半
更深人靜之時，大殿一旁的大磬向坐在正中央的大佛提出嚴重抗議﹕「你、我都是用銅鑄造的，可是，人們向你獻上鮮花、水果後，『捱打』的總是我，接受禮拜的卻是你。這公平嗎？」 大佛意味深長地說﹕「大磬呀！我當初被工匠鑄造時，歷經刀山烈火的痛楚，才初顯我身體的輪廓；一棒一棒的鎚打，才鑄成我莊嚴的五官；一刀一刀的雕琢，才雕刻出我慈祥的面容；日夜忍耐如雨點般的千錘百煉，才鑄造出我相好光明的真身……我是經歷了難行能行、難忍能忍的磨煉，才有今天坐在大殿裏的『福氣』，接受香花供養和人類的禮拜！反觀你，人們只是在你身上輕輕地敲打，你就叫痛喊怨！」(引自《明覺》)
終極價值
若心中沒有一終極的理想與價值，則人生中承擔的一切苦難有何意義？